James Bolton McMillan Irving              Updated: 16 MAY 2021

Airman:
 a060004.htm Surname: Irving Init: JBM Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 102

P_link: p159.htm Plane: HAL HR712 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Slipshavn, Storebælt

Crash_d: d210443 Buried_d: b111111 C_link: c060.htm At_Next: Nyborg

 Den 21. april 1943 på hjemturen fra et bombetogt mod Stettin styrtede HAL HR712 ramt af flak
ned nær Slipshavn, omkring her. (Kilde: Lost Bombers)

Den 3. maj fandt inspektionsskibet "Absalon" ligene af 3 flyvere i vraget ca. 1550 m fra Slipshavn.
Det var F. W. Day, G. H. Bartman og J. B. M Irving, der blev begravet i Nyborg.
Der er ingen oplysninger om hvornår og hvordan flyverne fra
HAL HR712 blev begravet. (Kilde: FAF)

Sergeant (Air Gunner) James Bolton McMillan Irving, 22 år, var søn af Henry og Emily Irving,
Stranraer, Wigtownshire, United Kingdom.
(Kilde: CWGC)

Se Halifax Print og folk bag en Halifax klar til en mission. Se Stettin + Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943.
7 flyvere.

On 21 April 1943 on the return flight from a bombing raid on Stettin HAL HR712 crashed, hit by
flak, near Slipshavn, about here. (Source: Lost Bombers)

On 3 May the ship "Absalon" found the bodies of 3 airmen in the wreck about 1550 m from Slipshavn.
F. W. Day, G. H. Bartman and J. B. M Irving were buried in Nyborg New Cemetery.
There is no information about how and when the airmen from
HAL HR712 were buried. (Source: FAF)

Sergeant (Air Gunner) James Bolton McMillan Irving, 22, was the son of Henry and Emily Irving,
of Stranraer, Wigtownshire, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them
He
is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 2, P 187.

See  No. 102 Squadron - Wikipedia Stettin + Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943.      
Halifax II HR712 DY- took off from RAF Pocklington at 21.34 hrs on 20 FEB 1943.
(Source:
Aircrew Remembered has this.) See Pocklington History.
Halifax-RAF Museum * Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum.
See Halifax Print and Halifax - Bless 'Em All. 7 airmen.